As of 1 October, the FIFA Transfer Matching System must be used for all international transfers. FIFPro has an important role in judging transfers of under-age players. ‘This TMS is a significant step in the right direction.’

A significant achievement for young football players all around the world. FIFA – after a strong recommendation from FIFPro - is to adjust its regulations in order to strengthen the protection of minor players.

FIFPro welcomes the statement made by the EU Expert Group ‘Good Governance’, which emphasises the importance of application of national and EU law principles in professional sports. FIFPro fully agrees with this statement.

A lot was made this summer of the ?94 million that Real Madrid paid to sign Cristiano Ronaldo. There was no end to the money, so it seemed. However, the reality in many European footballing countries was very different.

FIFPro advocates the protection of minors. In particular, the monitoring of international transfers involving players below the age of 18 is an absolute necessity in order to combat exploitation and the trafficking of these young players.

FIFA has installed a special committee, that starting 1 October supervises all international transfers of minors. Eleven delegates have been selected for this committee, one of them being FIFPro’s Secretary General Theo van Seggelen.

FIFPro looks back at a constructive meeting of the Professional Football Strategy Council at UEFA's headquarters in Nyon, where all of football's stakeholders agreed on tackling serious issues such as third-party ownership, agent fees, integrity, the...

Philippe Piat, FIFPro Vice-President, wants to denounce FIFA’s Regulations on the Status and Transfers of Players. ‘We consider them to be contrary to Community law, in that they do not guarantee the free movement of footballers.'

FIFPro is deeply disappointed in the outcomes of the KEA Study on the Economic and Legal Aspects of Transfers of Players presented on Thursday 7 February by the European Commission. ‘Poor quality and inconsistent.’

FIFA has installed a special committee, that starting 1 October 2009 supervises all international transfers of minors (players under the age of 18). Eleven delegates have been selected for this committee, one of them being FIFPro?s Secretary General Theo

FIFPro is concerned by the situation of minor footballers as described by journalist Juan Pablo Meneses. Given the young age and the vulnerability of these children, FIFPro demands more effective regulations to protect them.

anised its 2014 Legal Conference last week, on 30 September and 1 October. During last week's event, FIFPro – the world players' union – welcomed several keynote speakers who addressed topics such as Third Party Ownership, Licensing Systems, Transfers of Minors and the latest developements at CAS.

FIFPro doubts if the introduction of a salary cap can help solve the financial problems of clubs. The World players? union is willing to talk about the implementation of a salary cap, but it thinks that a transfer cap will have more impact.

'A step in the right direction.' That?s how Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the English PFA and honorary president of FIFPro, reacted to the recent announcement of the Premier League to introduce a squad cap and a quota for home grown players.

FIFPro doubts if the introduction of a transfer cap can help solve the financial problems of clubs. The World players’ union is willing to talk about the implementation of a salary cap, but it thinks that a transfer cap will have more impact.

FIFPro is advising all professional football players to be very critical before signing a contract with a new club. FIFPro is giving a negative recommendation to players who want to sign with clubs in Cyprus, Greece or Turkey.

In two months we will know which eleven players have been selected by their peers for the 2014 FIFA FIFPro World XI. With the voting deadline in sight – Monday November 17th – and ballots arriving in bunches and batches, FIFPro shines a light on several...

A new indication of the dismal status of professional football in Serbia: twelve of the sixteen Super League clubs have only received temporary licences for the new championship season which kicked off on August 9th. Four of those clubs are even...

FIFPro notes with concern the latest developments in the football world, especially mounting allegations against the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. More alarming claims surrounding the 2018/2022 World Cup bidding process, as exposed by The Sunday Times, and...

A global mobilisation campaign to restore the rights of players and bring order to the football industry is gathering momentum, as the head of FIFPro Division America weighed in today on why his continent supports the urgent need for transfer system...

FIFPro President Phillipe Piat said today the transfer system is illegal, citing the abuse of players' rights coupled with a skewed, inflated and unsustainable labour market which poses an irrefutable threat to the football industry.

The Chilean journalist Juan Pablo Meneses recently published his book ‘Niños Futbolistas’ in which he describes the practice of child-footballers in South America being bought and transferred at a very young age.

The Colombian professional footballers’ association welcomed the new draft law presented by the Ministry of Labour. Within a week after an unprecedented players’ protest, the Minister adjusted the initial draft.

FIFPro states that the many problems with the existing transfer system need to be addressed carefully and seriously. Therefore FIFPro presents an expert group to examine and provide the necessary recommendations.

The Portuguese Union of Professional Football Players (SJPF) and the Football League are in the process of revising the Collective Bargaining agreement (CBA). Recently they agreed on a set of special measures.

Philippe Piat, the president of the French professional footballers’ union (UNFP), who is also vice president of FIFPro and president of FIFPro Division Europe doesn’t mince his words in an interview with Belgian magazine Sport.

Philippe Piat, president of the French footballers’ association UNFP and vice-president of FIFPro, speaks in French daily Le Monde about the situation of Peguy Luyindula, a player who is persona non grata at his club Paris Saint-Germain.

FIFPro's secretary general Theo van Seggelen says that an average player's lifestyle is often far removed from the usual image of mansions, fast cars and outrageous weddings. The vast majority are ordinary wage-earners.

Lucien Valloni, president of the Swiss footballers' association on the FC Sion case: ‘It is now clear that the image of Swiss football has suffered in the eyes of the football world, and in practice Swiss football as a whole has been affected.'

CAS needs to introduce faster procedures to prevent situations such as FC Sion’s from happening. That is the opinion of Lucien Valloni, president of the Swiss professional footballers’ association SAFP.

FIFPro fully supports the strike that the Italian footballers in the Serie A have called. The worldwide players' union endorses the reasons that have prompted the Italian footballers to take this action.

The players in the Italian Serie A once again have agreed to strike if an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement is not reached by the 30 November, the Italian footballers’ association AIC announced.

?Obviously people have made an awful lot of money out of being football agents over the last few years.? In the last year the twenty clubs from the English Premier League have spent almost 80 million euro on fees for players? agents.

At its annual congress, which took place in Budapest from 18 to 20 November 2009, FIFPro reviewed the current state of world football. FIFPro welcomed representatives of FIFA to Hungary, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Barcelo

FIFPro likes to express its deepest sympathy to family and friends of Robert Enke. The World Players? Union regrets the death of the goalkeeper and hopes that the football world learns from the suicide of the 32-year old player.

Ecuador?s football association FEF has suspended Barcelona Sporting Club. The FEF temporarily took away the sportive rights from the Guayaquil club, after it had failed to pay some players their salaries.

FIFPro has issued an official declaration on the news appeared in Spanish media stating the FIFPro would have asked for the termination of the new contract between Messi and Barcelona. FIFPro has, however, limited itself, on request, to make a critical no

Adrian Mutu has finally decided to submit an appeal at the Swiss Bundesgericht against the ruling of the CAS which stipulated that the Romanian must pay ?17 million to Chelsea following his dismissal from the club after a positive doping test in 2004.

The Professional Football Strategy Council (PFSC) has today unanimously recommended that the Financial Fair Play concept be approved by the UEFA Executive Committee at its forthcoming meeting in Nyon on 14/15 September.

A footballer attempts to effect a transfer to the club of his dreams. Nothing unusual in this day and age. What is unusual is that with the transfer goings-on concerning Franck Ribéry, it emerged that the clubs of the ECA had concluded a gentlemen?s agree

At the beginning of March 2009 the Russian Football Union for players and coaches brought out its new magazine for the players, about the players. The Union will regularly familiarize magazine readers with the main problems within the Russian football ind

FIFPro is extremely disappointed by the verdict of the CAS in response to the appeal which FC Sion and Essam El-Hadary had initiated against the ruling which FIFA’s DRC had previously given in the case against Al-Ahly.